Research indicates that program articulation between two- and four-year institutions begins when faculty at both levels identify and validate the competencies which students should have. A study was conducted to develop a model methodology for articulating a program of study between a two- and four-year institution by identifying and validating…

This document consists of the eight issues of the UNESCO-UNEP Environmental Education Newsletter published in 1991 and 1992. The lead article in the March 1991 issue, "From Awareness to Action via Nonformal Environmental Education," discusses the different methods to translate and transmit environmental education concepts to citizens in…

The literature pertaining to the processes and methods of curriculum design and evaluation in higher education is widely scattered and not in the form most useful to those designing curriculum. This monograph identifies many of these resources and discusses them in terms of their practical use. Case studies are used to illustrate the use of the…

This document comprises the archival print edition of the first volume of a quarterly electronic journal providing a forum for information on leading-edge teaching innovations and research findings in the field of family science. The foci of the journal are the family science curriculum, instruction issues, evaluation and assessment, and…

Describes developmental academic advising as a comprehensive, collaborative, and empowering process designed to maximize students' educational potential. Reviews basic developmental theories (i.e., psychosocial, cognitive-developmental, and person-environmental), and focussed theories dealing with adult learners, women, people of color, and gays…

Concrete descriptions of what has be done to improve undergraduate education at King's College, Pennsylvania are provided in this book, which represents a change agent's perspective on implementing an outcomes oriented curriculum and course-embedded assessment model. The necessity to achieve excellence in undergraduate education through…

This collection of five essays examines the ways sociology, as a discipline, currently reflects ongoing scholarship on gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation. In "Scholarship and the Curriculum: The Study of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class," Margaret L. Anderson argues that the study of race, class, and gender has become…

The Kentucky State University Integrative Studies Program, which is described in this report, consists of seven seminar-type models, three in the Western and four in the non-Western traditions. It is a basic component of a 53-hour core curriculum, and requires both faculty and students to analyze and interpret a body of knowledge involving…

The Maryland Center for Thinking Studies, established at Coppin State College in July 1988, and presented in this report, provides training and resources in the teaching of thinking and fosters research in thinking improvement. When fully operational, the Center will assimilate and contribute to research in cognitive instruction, disseminate the…

A model for an interdisciplinary graduate degree program based on the Behavioral Science Graduate degree program at California State University at Dominguez Hills is described. In light of the declining resources available to higher education institutions it is recommended that curricular programs be accountable and responsive to the needs of the…

This collection of five essays examines the ways in which history, as a discipline, currently reflects ongoing scholarship on gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation. In "Rethinking History," Carol Ruth Berkin reviews the incorporation of social history into elementary, secondary, and postsecondary textbooks. In…

The report presents results of two seminars, held in Miami (Florida) and Cambridge (England), in which representatives of two groups, The European Association for International Education and the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs: Association of International Educators, met for intensive discussion of the methods for and design of…

Based on criteria that were developed for the design and evaluation of undergraduate level programs in construction, a model of a four-year, 132 semester credit program is presented. Major academic requirements consist of 15-21 credit hours of each of the following: mathematics and science, communication skills, construction engineering,…

The trend to internationalize has impacted upon most higher education institutions in the United States. This paper offers an organizational framework for understanding and implementing internationalization as an institution-wide process. The first section of the paper discusses and identifies the core characteristics required for all…

In the design and implementation of the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation's (COPA) Project to Develop Evaluative Criteria and Procedures for the Accreditation of Nontraditional Education, a taxonomy for the classification and determination of the nature of nontraditional institutions has been developed. The objective of the study was to…